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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Category Buyer - Ammunition and Missile

Procurement & SourcingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeHerstal, BelgiumNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least five years of experience in projects or programs, product design or development, and work with cross-functional teams.
  • Ability to implement an operational supply chain strategy.
  • Contractual knowledge, particularly in framework agreements, liability, and insurance.
  • Ability to conduct negotiations, including import and export negotiations.
  • Ability to understand the markets for assigned categories and the needs and challenges of customer programs.
  • Good knowledge of a best-practice acquisition process.
  • Good English is required.

Responsibilities

  • Manage one or more purchasing categories.
  • Work closely with GCMs, CTLs, CMs, and Tactical Buyers.
  • Ensure that all actions comply with the strategies defined by the GCM and CM.
  • Manage RFI and/or RFP processes through PVet phase 4, and through PVet phase 5 for certain regions, to ensure business competitiveness.
  • Ensure Tactical Buyers receive all information needed to issue purchase orders.
  • Monitor assigned category markets, including key players, new entrants, economic changes, market or regulatory constraints, innovations, and technology, to support current category strategies.
  • Recommend ways to improve product and project competitiveness through different suppliers, methodologies, or technologies.
  • Ensure appropriate governance through key performance indicators and root-cause corrective actions.
  • Manage supplier-base performance according to standards defined by the GCM.
  • Ensure supplier competitions follow governance processes and are balanced and fair to improve business and customer performance.
  • Ensure global contracts and framework agreements are adopted and used.
  • Ensure full use of Thales e-Acquisition and all Thales purchasing tools.
  • Identify suppliers needing targeted development actions based on supplier-base performance, and ensure the supplier development team has the support and influence needed to make those actions successful.

About the Company

Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Thales designs and delivers critical technology for aerospace, defense, and digital security. Its products include electronics, software, and data-security systems that power air travel, payments, and modern military platforms, by integrating hardware and software to build systems such as avionics, radar, cybersecurity, and secure communications that collect sensor data and protect networks. It stands out through deep industrial experience, end-to-end solutions across defense, aerospace, and cybersecurity, and a focus on AI and quantum tech, aided by strategic acquisitions and partial state ownership. Its goal is to provide reliable, secure, and connected technologies that support national security, public safety, and everyday life by solving complex security and connectivity challenges.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Meudon, France
Founded
1893

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